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Banana - Isolated by robin_24 (cc by)

How a simple email about a lunchroom opportunity brought a global corporation's email system to its knees.

Cottonmouth by ggallice (cc by)

On snakebites and antivenin.

MeFite iamkimiam has published her research on how MeFites pronounce MetaFilter, and of course we discuss it in MetaTalk.

The Shoe Family by Ella's Dad (cc by)

Friendly neighborhood bootblack here. We're the folks that keep folks looking shiny at your local leather bar.

a restoration of what a Kimberella might look like

[O]ur most recent common ancestor with octopus might have looked something like this... more like an octopus than a human. Our most recent common ancestor was some kind of soft-bodied blob that existed well over half a billion years ago and had no head, no eyes, and only a very basic, decentralized nervous system. In other words, our common ancestor had no brain.